NFL Running Back Austin Ekeler Recaps 2021 Draft

from the King of Sports Books bet MGM, and today is our NFL Draft wrap up and we have an amazing guest, l A Charger. Austin Ekeler joins the show. But before all of that, Olivia is going to update us on what happened at the draft. Olivia, the floor is yours. What would you say were the biggest takeaways from the first round? Hey, Speedy, Yeah, it was a great first round of the draft, especially and how refreshing just to see the guys there in their fancy suits

hugging their families. It was just what we needed, right. It was so fun to watch. I think at first it was notable that all the first three picks were quarterbacks, but not necessarily who we thought. They're also a record setting seven offensive players taking off the board first record setting, and that includes the highest drafted tight end ever. There was a last minute top ten trade that was exciting.

There were three current NFL quarterbacks reunited with their former college teammates, that was in the top ten alone, and the Patriots draft a quarterback in the first round for the first time in almost thirty years. Something else is just a college football fan. I thought was interesting her seven players who opted out of the season got picked in the first round, so that kind of puts in perspective.

I was tweeting about this little bit of how NFL scouts valued that decision because a lot of people thought that would hurt their draft stock. It clearly did not. And then conference wise, just for the breakdown, six players from Alabama Hima alone were taken in the first round. That's insane. The SEC is obviously king again, and no players, not a single player from the Big twelve was drafted

in the first round. That's never happened. So that those are your tree tops, But that that was very interesting first night of the draft, Olivia, why don't you run us through those first seven offensive players that were picked. Yeah, just as everyone predicted, Trevor Lawrence went first overall to Jacksonville, and then Zack Wilson, the quarterback out of b y U, he goes to the New York Jets. I like they coined the term Zach Smith Avenue instead of sack Smith Avenue.

That was kind of funny. And he's hoping to be the best quarterback in the franchise since Broadway Joe Namath, so a lot of pressure. And then the big surprise medi was Trey Lance going third overall to the San Francisco forty niners. And as the story developed, because there were a lot of question marks, we found out later that the GM John Lynch and the coach Kyle Shanahan had made the decision but told no one. They didn't tell their owner, it didn't tell scouts, coaching staff, no one.

They wanted to try to get rid of confirmation bias of group think, but they knew they were going for Trey Lance. So it's a huge secret. It's a great story, but it's a really bold pick. I mean, remember they gave up two first round picks for the next two years to get this third overall pick, and they use it on a guy who played in the FCS, only really played one season, only has seventeen starts, So major gamble.

This is gonna be something we're talking about for years to come, and probably the biggest storyline from night one. And then I mentioned the highest drafted tight end. Ever, that's Kyle Pitts from Florida. He went forth overall to Atlanta, and pundit say he's a future Hall of Famer. He's a freak athlete, and it's really a sigh of relief for quarterback Matt Ryan. He gets another weapon and not

a replacement. So that's another big storyline. And so then after all of those offensive players, we finally got our first defensive player picked. What can you tell less about him? Yeah, all the way to number eight. Again, that was record setting seven offensive players taken first. That's cornerback j. C. Horne. He goes to the Carolina Panthers. The reason that's significant is because they did not go for a quarterback. They had both Justin Fields and Mac Jones available, which means

that they were writing with Sam Donald. Afterwards, they picked up his fifth year option. So that's the big storyline in Carolina. And then I mentioned earlier there was a trade in the top ten. That was the Philadelphia Eagles. They moved up two spots to get the number ten spot. That's in a trade at the Cowboys who received a third round pick, and they got Heisman winner Davante Smith taken at number ten to the Eagles, and he's now reunited with his old quarterback at Alabama, Jalen Hurts. He

is and Olivia. Lastly, here, what can you tell us about Justin Fields and Mac Jones? Something happened there? Huh yeah, I mean last week, Speedy, we were talking about those two guys. Everyone thought they were going to be first five six players taken. Well, just Fields, the quarterback out of Ohio State, fell to number eleven. He's going to the Chicago Bears. You know, they have a pretty good defense in place in Chicago, but they have been desperate

for a quarterback to save the day. So you know, I'm a Packer fan. I was kind of watching this develop because I did not want Chicago to get a great player, and I think they did in Justin Field. So congratulations to Justin Field. That's exciting. But then fifteenth overall, that's when Mac Jones from Alabama was selected. He goes to New England. That was the first quarterback the Patriots

have drafted in the first round. I've mentioned that earlier since Drew bloodso Ine that's the year I was born, So in my lifetime, the Patriots have not taken a quarterback in the first round. It's it's incredible, but it speaks so highly of what Bill Belichick thinks of Nick Saban. Overall, he's drafted thirteen players coached by Nick Saban. That's most in any coaching tandem. You've seen great videos of them together, their friends. They say they enjoy talking to no one

else more than the other. So that's a really cool story overall of the two best coaches to ever do it. So I love that that's how Mac Jones ends up in New England. And then one other quick thing speed the Clemson running back Travis Etienne. He went twenty five overall to Jacksonville. So he's now reunited with Clemson teammate Trevor Lawrence, who obviously went first overall, and they're going to play for Urban Meyer and his coaching return. So

Jacksonville is a great story this year, Olivia. With the robust NFL Draft recap now coming up on Unleashed, We've got l a Charger Austin Ekeler joining the show. Austin

Ekeler is a running back for the Los Angeles Chargers. He played his college ball at Western Colorado. Ekeler rushed for a well over a thousand yards and all four of his seasons and even led Division two and all purpose yards per game. He then went undrafted and signed with the Chargers in where he's been ever sense, becoming one of the most recognizable faces on the team and

signing a four year extension. So the last two weeks Austin were very focused on the draft obviously, and that's kind of where your story begins, um, from the national perspective, by not getting drafted, Can you explain what those couple of days were like for you? You know, what your agent was saying, what your family was saying, what you were feeling. Yeah, absolutely, thanks for having me on first

and foremost glad to be here. But uh, yeah for me, you know, I came from a smaller school like my school in generals like students, so it's very small, universal wow, very small and up in the mountains in a little valley, a little mountain town that's based off of tourism, right, that's how that town makes elevens money. But it was not like a big sports town. So as far as having scouts up there my practices, like my senior year,

it was like a big deal. Was like, oh, like, who are these people like we have some outside was

coming up. So it was just from that's the dynamic that was going into I definitely had some interest because I did have scouts out there a lot of my practices, but then just going into the draft, you know, my agent would just tell him, like, look like you came to us a school where you don't really have the competition level, Like you know, no one's ever come out of the Western that's going to the NFL besides one person, and so it's like, probably not gonna get drafted just

because teams feel like they can pick you up and they feel like teams would just let you slide. And like if you're on the same level as someone else on the draft board and they went to like L s U or bigger school, they're gonna take that person because they have more eyes. And so I wasn't expected

to get drafted. So about half of through the last round of the draft, the Chargers called me, Uh, well, they called my agent and like, hey, we're gonna take him if if he doesn't get picked up in these last few rounds, will take him as undrafted free agent if he wants to sign with us. And that was one of the top choices that I had and going into the draft, so it was perfect. And now are you watching the draft day by day like as it goes, or were you kind of like, man, let me just

not even watch, just to manage your own expectations. So I mean I watched the first round just to see a few like picks go by, and then the second day of like and it went. In the third day, I was actually in the gym just listening to it in my ear, waiting for those last, those final rounds to come by. And then finally when the seventh round came by, I had like a little little get together just in case, you know, something crazy happened, and I

got drafted. But it still was a special moment getting signed right after the draft. So in my head, I'm picturing that like a movie scene, Like you're in the gym, you hear each name, every name that's going and how that has to be such a theme, and then when you finally get the call you're going to the Chargers.

Does being undrafted set of tones that set some kind of separation between you and other guys as far as politically and like in the audience was yes, But in my head it was like, no, like, I need an opportunity. I guess what I was looking for. I was looking for an opportunity. I literally dropped out of the last semester of college just to train and just to focus on the opportunity. I was all in on what I had.

I was like, this is the most important thing that I want to do right now in my life, and so I dropped everything just to focus on the train. I had great numbers, and you know, I did well in college, so I felt like, Okay, I'm gonna get an opportunity somewhere. And so when that opportunity finally came, it was like, okay, it's it's a good time for me. Now. Well that opportunity came on your first NFL carry, you score a touchdown. What was your approach to rookie here? Right?

So my rookie year, I came in a sixth stream into camp and so I mean, you know anything about football, there's not too many six stringers that make the team so right, And so the thing was, I never moved

up on the depth chart either during training camp. I was six stream throughout the entire time, and so you know, I was getting like a few players here and there, and most of my players came on scout team special teams, and that's where I made my most impact on the teams on special teams, going down and making tackles on on punt and you know, that was that was my role. That was my job at the time. So I took it super serious. Right, that's just keeping me in the league.

And then you know, slowly started to just get my way into an offensive role. For my my first regular season carry was like the third game against the Eagles for a thirty four year touchdown. People like, Okay, maybe this guy can play, you know, but yeah, like my rookie year, Like I think one of my most favorite stats is that I led the NFL and tackles on point. That was because that's what I was doing. That was like my job, Like I'm going down and making tackles

on specialty. You know, I was really good at it too, right, And so even to still today, that's like my favorite. Like I almost had a thousand receiving yard season, but I still love my piezstat the six out. To me, that's just how I got into the league, right, just show that I can do more than just play one position. I can do it all. Yeah, that's dope. Now, if it was me in your shoes, right, and the very first carry I rushed for thirty five yards or thirty

four yards and score touchdown. I'm thinking that every time I touched the ball, I'm going to score. Did you have that mentality? Now? Like, yo, I might score every time I touched to the football. Not quite, not quite. I've got a few passes before then, like three or four, and so I understood the speed of the game. And then finally got my first carry and just you know, how to sell a block, he made a guy missed and scored. And so I mean, my average is pretty

good right there. Should probably never touched the ball a game. Just kept my thirty four yard average. But to know I it was gonna be a little bit harder than that. But my mentality, yeah, my mentality, every time we get the balls, la, let's go make something happen. Well. Sticking with the topic of the draft this year, one of the big surprises was Trey Lance out of North Dakota State going third overall to San Francisco. Your teammates with

his college teammate East and Stick. Have you ever had conversations with Eastern about Trey Lance and what he can be in the NFL. No, actually, I mean I don't even follow college football at all, so I can't put any input on that. Yeah, I know, because I came from a really small Division two schools, so I like follow my school and that's about it. Like, I don't know any of these big conferences that are always talked about, right, No one talks about the ARMAC. I don't even know

if it stands for. It's a Rocky Mountain Athletic conference that's Ride Clay. So that's what I follow. To be here, I didn't know that the college football is my sport. That's what I cover. And I actually got to cover tray Lands at North Dakota State and I had a couple of their games. But I think that's the same mentality from where they're coming from. Now they're a powerhouse

in their conference and where they're coming from. But I mean, there's got to be this thing amongst D two D three players in the NFL where you kind of like keep track of each other, right I do, because there's people from from the ARMAC. You know, Ryan Jensen and I just won the Super Bowl, you know, he's a center for you know, the Buccaneers, right, Like, yeah, Like

we played against each other in college. And Danny Woodhead he's you know, he was a guy that I looked at to coming from the same conference, played for like nine years. He played for the Chargers for most of his career. So like, just guys like that, Like I just stay in touch with these guys. Now, Listen, after being you know, in the league for a couple of years, now, you were the first undrafted running back with five plus receiving scores in the first two years of your career.

When you see and hear stats like that, knowing from where you came right knowing your journey, does it feel surreal at all? I don't think. I don't think so. I don't think so. I think it's just been part of the journey, part of just the process that I've been going through because I've been trying so hard and putting this at the top of my priority list, and

it feels like I'm just going down the line. I'm taking advantage of every opportune that's been front of me as far as the NFL, and I continue just to just to really focus on this. So it's kind of like, Okay, I'm expecting myself to have some type of progress here. And you know, I think it was the real most thing in the first year because I was like the year, I'm like, okay, let me see how this is gonna go. Uh do I fit in here? Like I'm physically able

and capable to be a leader. You would just be on the team. And as I've just kind of learned the business now, it's like, okay, like, yeah, I can see myself having a lot of success here as long as I stay with it and stay healthy. And that's kind of just been how it is. Like I don't take it for granted. I always remember where I came from,

always remember I came from that. I continue to keep working, but I'm expecting results from myself, so it doesn't seem like it's like, oh, like surprising if if something good happens, Like I'm working towards this. A lot of people are expecting a lot of your whole team this year. You know, new stadium, new head coach, training, offensive rookie of the year.

What are you all doing on the field, maybe just offensively that makes you a real threat in the a f C. Last year you know, we had some ups and down on this crazy year, just young her in his first year. You know, I think, what's gonna make us a threat? You know, we have to be an explosive offense just in general just to be able to

compete with the Chiefs. And you know the rumors of Aaron Rodgers trying to end up in the Bronco whatever he's trying to do, I'm talking about, it was gonna regardless we got We got Pat Mahomes in our division, so we're gonna have some firepower. Um. You know, that's what our our coaches are trying to do, right trying to put us in the best positions. We have a lot of playmakers on the team, and it's like, how can I get these guys in the best position to

make play? And so that's what every NFL team is trying to do every single year. But you know, we have to find a new chemistry that really works for us. That's why we get new coaches. That's why coaches move around, and that's because everyone is trying to find, Okay, who's got the right scheme for my team? How can we get the chemistry build up? And so I can't tell you what it's gonna be because we got to find out by playing. But um, I know I can tell

you this. We're all looking forward to another opportunity to pete Now. I heard when Brandon's Daley got the job when he was announced back in January, that he called you to talk about anything but football. Like, what did he say when he picked up the phone and you answered, right, yeah, I was. I was actually surprised, like I usually don't answer random calls, but it was like just some number, right, you know who? This was like hello, oh shoot, what's up? Coach.

At the time, I was like, I knew we hired a coach. Prefer guy was like, was it this co Yeah? I didn't really like it was more like okay, okay now. And then he started talking to me as I'll get this is the sun new head coach. And then we started talking about relationships, talking about his mentality, just talking about just how he wants to go forward and just

you know, get to know us. And I thought that was really special because you know, especially in times like today, we don't have a lot of one on one time with each other in the same building. Want zooms a lot of time. It's really important for me to get to know you as a person so I can get behind what you believe in, because if I don't know, you'd be like, oh, we're gonna do this, do that,

and it doesn't think in as much. But if I know you personally and it's like I care about you as a person too because I like what you believe in a know what you're about, then you know I could play and I can really get behind what you're saying, and I can believe put that to the rest of the team, to the younger guys too. So yeah, I love I love the way he's coming implement himself definitely as a competitor wants to see a self compete at

the same time, and I love that too. Now, Austin, I know that you are in the streamer world, but also and most maybe most pressing, you are doing some things with n f t s would seem to be all of the buzz right now. What can you tell us about these thirty n f t s And if you had to explain it in one line to my grandmother, what is an n f T UM. Yeah, like you said, I'm in the stream world, so someone I'm big in the digital space. Right Now, I love content, and I feel like n f T is a new one like

form of content. But that's like more static. Right. So if I was explaining it to someone who had no idea what the heck in NFC was, which is a non fungible token, it's what the acronym stands for. But then you're like still like okay, well that to that mean? Right, So basically, like imagine a painting on the wall. Again, this is more in one sentence. Basically, it's a digital artwork. So instead of it on the wall, it's on your computer,

it's on your virtual reality room. It's it's digital. So it's like you can put it on the USB draft you know, you can put your painting on the wall in a box, so you can't can't put your digital artwork in a box. You can put in like a box of the US. So I see it as a

digital artwork, right. People can take a picture of I can take a picture of the zoom call and make it a picture on the wall, right, or I can also make it digitally, which would be the n f T. Right, And so there is there's a place where it started. It can't be it can't be like replicated. The exact one can be technically replicated, but there is only one original and you can prove it through the blockchain. And uh so that's how I would explain. Maybe still confusing,

but just digital artwork. Still confusing, but I understand it a little more digital artwork, got it? Digital artwork. Now you're doing thirty of them, right, yeah? Yeah, so yeah, obviously my numbers thirty, So we're dropping thirty. N f t s have a decided we need to get like a little promo for it before we drop them. But they're gonna be three different types, um seven of them,

I don't know. I think seven or nine of them are going to be like one tight gold gold goal and then there's gonna be a platinum person of one of them too. So it's just it's just our work. It's just our work, and it's like stuff that incorporates my life. Right, So there's some working out, there's some football stuff, and it's just a fun way for me to to give new content to my community. Okay, Also, and I mean this with all respect, but do you have like a little nerd side to you? I absolutely

have a nerds side to me. I'm always I'm in streaming, I'm in gaming, like I love to like to learn about like stocks stuff like that. Like I'm always. I don't know, I don't know. I don't even know if the definition of nerd is anymore because I feel like, you know, are like just people that just like look to learn about things and do a lot of digital stuff. You know, that's like the new wave, right, So I feel like we all have to have a little like nerds side to us, right. For sure, everyone has a

nerd side. It's really refreshing though, when you see an athlete with one and just to show more dimensions of who you are. Do you feel like at this point in your career, because you're coming into your own on the field. I mentioned the contract extension, you started every game you played last year. You're a very established player in this league. Do you feel like now you're trying to kind of incorporate other sides of your personality in your hobbies. I think it's imperative for NFL players to

do that, right, because here's the thing. If you come into the NFL and you're not superstar in the NFL, and you don't like if you're a superstar. Your brand is created naturally through your play and just through people getting visually like seeing you and like the media stuff like that. But if you're like a guy like me coming in like I, no one know who who I was.

And so it was my job, in my opinion, to go out and show people who I am besides a football player, because if you're not a superstar in your football peer ends, guess what, Like if you didn't build a brand, then people forget about you. Like just think about all the players that retire every that no one even knows, right, And so it happens every year, right, happens all the time, and it's going to continue to happen.

But it's like, let me capture as a player. It's my job to capture as much of this platform and try to take them with me and try to get them to care about me for a different reasons besides football. So that's why I do all the streams, That's why

it provides so much content, you know. That's why I'm doing these big, big events with Migrantor and Gaming Group Company UM just to try to create awareness and let people come in and actually just like show who they are besides the football player right at the same time, it just allows me to like run a big event and be in front of people, and so like it

benefits me to just to build this platform. And that's something that we're seeing, you know, in in many sports, like just athletes kind of just leaning into who they really are in their personal brands. We had Chad Ocho Sinko Johnson on and he was telling us how big

into gaming he is. There was a little bonding moment between Olivia and Chad's a lady because Olivia is upset with how much time her guy spends on the game war Zone specifically, if you had to estimate how much time you're spending when comes to gaming streaming, what what what would that number be in the off season? Off season numbers in the off season. Okay, because it's it's very it's been it's been different because I'm super busy right now trying to get them up GGG and stuff

off the ground. So I probably stream three days a week for like two hours. That's Monday, Wednesday, Friday, so I'll do that, but I also play a probace some video games in between there for like an hour like every day. So let's committing like six let's let's say seven, so like thirteen hours a week I was dedicated to just like content creation or like gaming for personal like

just reference Olivia. How does that stack up to Sam's numbers. Well, I'm looking at my husband playing war Zone right now behind the glass door. And and here's here's where I am okay with this is because he does it with his you know, his brother, all of his friends all this. So it's like if I were to meet some of my girlfriends for a drink, you know, it's it's like almost the same thing. It's so social to them. That's where I've waived the white flag. I'm like, Okay, I

get it. But I think women and wives and girlfriends around the country and world have the same plight, so I get it. I don't know. It's just like I don't know. I don't know if it's just like our competitive nature as and men. Yeah, and we just loves like be on for new games and yelling at each other and having a good time socially. I don't know if that's what it is or what it is, Like I think that's what it is for me, right, It's like for me to compete or like adventure and like

some other like world. No way for reality for sure. Now that's cool. Well, we were talking actually before we started recording about Philip Rivers. You obviously played with them with the Chargers, such a long tenured, obviously player in the league's you go from that to justin Herbert. What's it like in that huddle on game day going from such a vet to a rookie who's ultimately going to

win Offensive Rookie of the Year. Yeah, the biggest difference was just kind of you know, how we were treating how to like the vocals a huddle when he was running the Hoddle was like he knows everything. People are asking him questions, but I got this, I got right. And now with Herbert in here, especially when I first started the first game, we were just making sure like

now we've all been playing together for a while. We had a lot of skilled veterans in there, and so we all knew the scheme like back for him and can run the same stuff for a long time. So we was like okay, like like there'd be times where where we messed up the play call, but then when we like correct him like us this, and so we were just like giving him confidence in us, like, hey, we know we're doing out here. We got your bad

So that's like you know, three safety. Uh. You know, as he continued to go through the season, you know, he started to you know, game more just experience and more knowledge of the game. And I actually saw that when I injured myself and then finally came back wide injured myself. I yeah, I injured, came back. You know, I just saw his growth as far as how he was calling plays and how he was actually like changing

the protections, and it was pretty cool to see. He's a really smart guy and he's just you know, I love to be around just because he's just like, hey, I'm about football and about the boys. Let's all go out here and have a good time when to a football game and so. And he's super competitive as well. I guess see get angry a few times. So I like that, Like I'm bad at the thay Man, It's okay to get angry, like you know, you didn't want that to happen. So I like seeing his his competitive

side coming out too. Yeah. I like that. Do you have a good story that kind of gives us a glimpse of what He's like, I wish I had more time with him. Um, Like I said, I only played

you know, like half the season. But I just remember I seeing his confidence build when it comes from told him like that what the play was, and apparently told him again because he yells, he looks inside and that goes I know, and I was like, yeah, Like at the beginning to the end of the year, I wouldn't have said that, but now I'm like, Okay, now he's getting some confidence out here. Like he's getting it, you understand. And so I'd love to see that after the firing

of Let's go. That's good. Well, Austin, whether it's on the real grid Iron or in your grid Iron gaming group, what can people expect from you coming up in the near future. Yeah, you know from the real grid Iron, you know, on the field, you know, my goal is always to build off for what I did last year, and so you know, I'm trying to. I love what I did last year as far as stay on the field, stay healthy. And I was putting up some numbers, I

was being efficient, I was killed it. I was so excited about the season and then you know, had had some adversity come. But you know how to overcome. That's the life of an athlete, and so trying to stay on the field this entire season and then off the field and great and gaming group. For those of you that don't know, extream on twitch from Austin. On Twitch, I'll talk about a lot of mental health, talk about

physical health, and talk about social life and motivations. I think it's very important for all of us to to hear you know, certain things, and I just talk about kind of my experience and sometimes it applies to people, sometimes it doesn't. But come check us out. We do bigger events. Our next big event will be around the Indie five hundred, just like we have a bunch of different athletes and gridter and gaming groups. We have Connor Daily he's an Indy car driver and that's like our

next big event. It's gonna be coming up. It's no date, just you know, just follow us on Instagram or following me on Instagram to find the updates and stay connected. Awesome, Well, Austin, thank you so much for pulling up roll. We appreciate you and all the best. Thank you do you guys. M alright, guys, we are wrapping things up with this

week's Lions luck our guy and maybe now officially our honorary co host Peter Andrew is back in the building now. Peter woke us through what we've got when it comes to this week's picks. Not that much exciting stuff going on. So what were some of those prop bits that we had spoken about last week? How did they pan out? Yeah?

So the one, the one big one that hit, and I know there's a lot of surprises last week, the one big one I was proud of was uh, I had mentioned six A C C players and seven big ten guys to be draft in the first We just hit that. Six a CC players, seven big ten players. Nice. So if you took that, you cashed in at plus three fifty, which was a nice, uh nice chunk of change. I think some of the ones I missed on Mac Jones I said to the Niners couldn't have been more

wrong there. I should have known that he was going to the Paths. Trey lanceopous to go to the Niners at three. And then what I had thought was all four first picks would have been quarterbacks. I thought for sure Atlanta would have knocked out of that fourth spot and someone would have traded up like the Bears like the Pats. Looks like they both got their guy a little later. So that didn't hit either. So I'm happy to say that one hit and it was a plus

three fifty, but a couple other ones didn't. And then my my favorite one that'speedy you loved was Mr Irrelevant to be a kicker, happer, punter. It was a linebacker, so we missed on that, but that one that payout was huge, right, it was huge plus twelve hundred. So I'm hoping this guy converts to a kicker or a long snipe and went down the line and then we're

getting our money back a retroactive win. I love that now, Peter explained to us as hosts, but also just all of our listeners, because I don't know this when you're watching the draft or any other event that we talked about. How do you watch it from the side of the house. Yeah, it's crazy. So I'm I've got like the Angel and Devil on my shoulders. Basically because forty Niners fan Pete is rooting for tray Land. It's rotten for a quarterback.

But then I know about all the liability that we have on the back end and who we need to hit. So I have to eventually pick a pick aside and say do I want to see us lose X amount of money or do I want what I want as a fan. So it's really tough. Yeah, I think in the sense of the Niners getting tray Lance, it worked in our favor. The money was big on mac Jones and on fields, so it ends up being the perfect scenario. But there's plenty of times where it's not. So it's

it's really difficult more for the trading guys. Me as the marketing guy can kind of get away with a little bit, but it's difficult. Absolutely. And this weekend, as Speedy mentioned, there's not a whole lot going on in the world of sports, but there is in golf the Wells Fargo Championship that's in Charlotte. What is a smart bet to place this weekend? Yeah, so quiet week as we make our way to ny HN NBA Player offs. But Wells Fargo has a great a great group this week.

I think you have some value picks and got some favorites. Rory justin Thomas. They both love this course. Rory's won there a couple of times. I think JT one in seventeen, so j T at plus a thousand I think is a good bet, and then Rory's plus eighteen hundred, so both should play well. I know Rory has been struggling a bit, but like I said, he loves his course, so I think he'll do good out in Charlotte, and then we get some value picks. I'm a little biased because Max Home was a bet MGM guy, so I

have to always do it from my guy there. He's plus four thousand. He actually is the defending champion, so he plays well for at the Wells Fargo as well. And then you have Kegan Bradley, who hapens to be a former St. John's guy. Another guy who had really good performance this week at the Vallas Bar. I think human second or third. He's plus five thousand. So both those guys, you know, the mid level kind of guys. I think they both have a decent opportunity to show.

And then my last guy is a long shot a hundred twenty five to one Aaron Wise. He was actually the runner up to Jason Day back in I think he only lost by two or three strokes. So if you're willing to put ten Bucks on one shot why not? Why not be Eroni was Yeah, I like that one a lot, Peter. You know, I I always have my notebook open when you are giving us some stuff in

the hopes that maybe I'll hit it big. But just being that this was a slow week, what do you got coming up for us over the course of the next couple of weeks. What are some big sporting events that we can be looking to bet on or maybe some big bets that are coming down the pipeline. Yeah, so it's it's gonna be really interesting to see once the NBA and NHL seasons wrap up. Obviously we're still finalizing who's in playing tournment for NBA is can be huge.

You got a team like the Lakers that are sitting in seven that might be playing in that playing game, so a lot of things can happen in shake up during that. So of course the two big sports we should be focused on is that. But then we're getting into some big things. You know, We're getting into the PGA Championship, We're getting into the French Open, so the second major of the year for tennis. And then what it's really exciting I think is the Euros in June.

A lot of people, especially during COVID, haven't seen a lot of guys like Ronaldo, teams like Portugal Spain. You know, deals were supposed happen last year and they unfortunately got canceled. So I think you get to get some events like that. It's gonna be really exciting summer, and then it kicks us right into the rest of baseball, into NFL. So so there's a lot to look forward to, but certainly

NHL NBA are at the forefront of it. Well, we look forward to talking about all that excitement coming up with you for the next couple of weeks. Peter, thanks again for your insight. Yeah, thanks so much, guys, talk next week. Alright, guys, that's a rap from us here on Unleashed. Make sure to check out all of the action from bit MGM. You can follow them everywhere on social media at bit MGM. As always, we only ask

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